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potatoes/roast

How long to roast potatoes

Three things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 45:00

How are they cut?

Parboiled first?

Parboiling and shaking them roughed-up is where the crust comes from.

Fan or conventional?

A fan oven runs hotter than its dial says. Sensei takes about 15% off for one.

How to tell without a timer

Salt now. They lose their crunch under a lid, so serve them open.

How it goes

  1. Hot fat, single layer, plenty of space between them.
  2. Turned. They should be colouring by now.
Every combination, as a table
How are they cut?Parboiled first?Fan or conventional?Time
Halved (small potatoes) Parboiled and roughed up Conventional / no fan 38:15
Halved (small potatoes) Parboiled and roughed up Fan / convection 32:30
Halved (small potatoes) Straight in raw Conventional / no fan 51:45
Halved (small potatoes) Straight in raw Fan / convection 44:00
Quartered Parboiled and roughed up Conventional / no fan 45:00
Quartered Parboiled and roughed up Fan / convection 38:15
Quartered Straight in raw Conventional / no fan 60:45
Quartered Straight in raw Fan / convection 51:45
Large chunks Parboiled and roughed up Conventional / no fan 54:00
Large chunks Parboiled and roughed up Fan / convection 46:00
Large chunks Straight in raw Conventional / no fan 73:00
Large chunks Straight in raw Fan / convection 62:00

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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